[02/25/26 - 10:01 AM] Martin Clunes to Guest Star on "Best Medicine" Clunes, the BAFTA award winning original star of the UK's "Doc Martin," guest stars as Martin's father, Robert Best on Tuesday, March 3 on FOX.
[via press release from FOX]
THE DOCTORS ARE IN!
MARTIN CLUNES, BAFTA AWARD WINNING ORIGINAL STAR OF THE UK'S DOC MARTIN, GUEST STARS AS MARTIN'S FATHER, ROBERT BEST ON TUESDAY, MARCH 3 @ 8/7c ON FOX!
CLUNES WILL BE JOINED BY JUDITH IVEY GUEST STARRING AS HIS WIFE, VANESSA.
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Episode Description:
When Martin's parents make a surprise visit, Martin suspects that his father, Robert, blindsides his sister Sarah with some infuriating news, is experiencing a serious health condition. Also, while trying to avoid the school's forthcoming closure amidst its annual Spirit Week sleepover, Louisa is made acting principal and Martin and Robert must operate together on Mark, in the all-new "Doc Martin" episode of BEST MEDICINE airing Tuesday, March 3 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Martin Clunes, star of the UK's Doc Martin, guest stars as Martin's father Robert Best and Judith Ivey guest stars as his wife, Vanessa.
About Martin Clunes:
Martin Clunes is best known as an actor for his roles as the title role in ITV's Doc Martin, and before that as Gary in BBC's Men Behaving Badly. His early career encompassed theatre and television and apart from a guest baddy in Doctor Who his first regular television roles were in television comedies like No Place Like Home, All at No 20, the Harry Enfield show and the Smell of Reeves & Mortimer. Amongst his other television credits are Jeeves and Wooster, Lorna Doone, A is for Acid, Goodbye Mr. Chips, William and Mary, The Town, A Mothers Son, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in Buffalo Pictures' adaptation of Julian Barnes' book Arthur & George and more recently as DCI Colin Sutton in ITV's Manhunt and Manhunt The Night Stalker and Out There. Martin rose to prominence in the BAFTA award-winning sitcom Men Behaving Badly repeatedly voted one of the most popular British sitcoms of all time by viewers and has won multiple awards. For his role as Gary, Martin won a BAFTA for Best Comedy Performance and a British Comedy Award for Top TV Comedy Actor. In 2002 he played the title role in Moliere's Tartuffe at the National Theatre. Martin's role as Martin Ellingham in the long-running series Doc Martin has continued to bring in high viewing figures around the world, winning Best TV Comedy Drama and being shown in over fifty countries. Doc Martin is produced by Martin's wife Philippa Braithwaite and their production company Buffalo Pictures. His few film credits include Carry on Columbus, The Russia House, Saving Grace, The Acid House Trilogy and in the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love he won a Screen Actors Guild of America award for his portrayal of Richard Burble. Beyond acting, Martin is well known for his documentaries, which include Buffalo Picture's A Man and his Dogs, Horsepower and Heavy Horsepower, Man to Manta, the Last Lemur Standing, The Islands of Britain, Australia and America and two series of The Islands of the Pacific to be followed by The Islands of the Atlantic. Martin has been the President of the British Horse Society since 2011. In 2015 he was awarded the OBE by the late Queen for services to Drama, Charity and the Dorset Community of which he is a Deputy Lord Lieutenant and in 2024 he was inaugurated as the first Chancellor of Hartpury College and University He can next be seen opposite Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in Wuthering Heights directed by Emerald Fennell.
About Best Medicine:
The series centers on Dr. Martin Best (Emmy Award-nominee Josh Charles, The Good Wife), a brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child with his Aunt Sarah (Annie Potts, Young Sheldon). There, he will meet the eclectic townspeople, including the charming schoolteacher Louisa Gavin (Abigail Spencer, Suits), lovable Sheriff Mark Mylow (Josh Segarra, Abbott Elementary) and Martin's inept but endearing assistant, Elaine Denton (Cree, Twinless).
Unfortunately, Martin's blunt and borderline rude bedside manner rubs the quirky, needy locals the wrong way, and he quickly alienates the town, even though he's all they've got. Although Martin can expertly address any medical ailment or mystery in this idiosyncratic town, he's really just desperate to be left the hell alone. Instead, he keeps getting dragged right smack into the middle of their personal chaos, feuds and fantasies. What the locals don't know is that Martin's terse demeanor masks a debilitating new phobia and deep-seated psychological issues that prevent him from experiencing true intimacy with anyone. But tenacity is the creed of everyone in this small village, and the people who live there may be exactly what the doctor ordered.
Wholly owned by FOX Entertainment, the series comes from executive producers Ben Silverman (The Office, U.S.), Rodney Ferrell (Stick), Howard T. Owens (Stick), Liz Tuccillo (Sex and the City), Mark Crowdy (Doc Martin) and Philippa Braithwaite (Doc Martin). Based on All3Media International's successful format Doc Martin, which was produced originally in the U.K. by Buffalo Pictures in association with Homerun Film Productions, and brought to American audiences by Propagate Content.
